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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although tension may be mounting in your common room, take comfort in the fact that you are not alone. Most first-years on campus have already thought about blocking, and many are beginning to panic...

Author: By Michelle L. Murphy, | Title: Tips for a Blissful Blocking Experience | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

...opening remarks as council president, Rawlins acknowledged the existence of partisan tension on the council but vowed to listen and make herself available to all council members...

Author: By William P. Moynahan, | Title: U.C. Elects Treasurer, Secretary | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...these charges generally has something to do with the Ad Board's role as an educational tool. According to this argument, the Board is not a court of law; its mission is to help and protect students. This counterclaim has a degree of merit. But there is a fundamental tension between the obligation of the College to protect students and the right of students to protect themselves...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Reverse the Tide of Paternalism | 1/29/1997 | See Source »

...course, this tension also exists in the United State's own judicial system. But in contrast to Harvard's Ad Board, the government, operating on the premise that it is impossible to arrive at the truth fairly via coercion and secrecy, established civil liberties laws to protect citizens from the potential excess of the government. The Ad Board undeniably shares the potential for these excesses, given that it has substantial power to seriously damage students via probation, explusion and requirements to withdraw. But within its current system, Harvard has implicitly decreed that the Ad Board is not party to these...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Reverse the Tide of Paternalism | 1/29/1997 | See Source »

...hard-liners that Netanyahu had given away everything and got nothing in return, finally agreed to withdraw troops from the West Bank, clearing the way for a Parliamentary debate Thursday. Debate in the Israeli Cabinet was intense, described by one Israeli official as "vociferous" and held amidst "tremendous tension." Early in the day, the entire session abruptly ended after Cabinet ministers received word from an Israeli TV report that the United States did not intend to let Israel decide for itself the extent of troop withdrawals from the West Bank. Debate resumed only after U.S. envoy Dennis Ross called each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now for the Hard Part | 1/15/1997 | See Source »

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